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Open the directory where your miner is, right click new txt file, hit ctrl-a, rename the file to cpuminer.bat . Click yes, you want to rename the file extension. Once the batch file is made, right click on it and click edit or open with notepad. Insert the following. but with you pool url & port, and your username password and how ever many cores/threads you like to use, replace the x with a number.

I am having trouble working out how to add my pool details to this string. For example does my username replace "userpass username.1" or "username" or "username.1", I am confused about the where to add the url, port and password too.

Perhaps someone could add some fake details and bold each input field?

I am having trouble working out how to add my pool details to this string. For example does my username replace "userpass username.1" or "username" or "username.1", I am confused about the where to add the url, port and password too.

Perhaps someone could add some fake details and bold each input field?

Example: Instead of me mining directly to a pool, I am mining towards mining proxy which is stratum supported, which in your case, the above you have is correct.minerd --url 192.168.1.166:8332 --userpass pekv2.1:password-here --threads 3

If you have more than one miner (especially CPU miners) running within a local network, it is best to use the Stratum proxy for Litecoin mining. This proxy allows you to achieve a much lower rate of stale shares while reducing your bandwidth usage. The Python source is available here, and a binary for Windows here. You start the proxy on one of your machines as follows:

mining_proxy -nm -pa scrypt -o litecoinpool.org -p 3333

Then you connect your miners to that machine on port 8332 with the usual pool worker username and password.

I am having trouble working out how to add my pool details to this string. For example does my username replace "userpass username.1" or "username" or "username.1", I am confused about the where to add the url, port and password too.

Perhaps someone could add some fake details and bold each input field?

Example: Instead of me mining directly to a pool, I am mining towards mining proxy which is stratum supported, which in your case, the above you have is correct.minerd --url 192.168.1.166:8332 --userpass pekv2.1:password-here --threads 3

If you have more than one miner (especially CPU miners) running within a local network, it is best to use the Stratum proxy for Litecoin mining. This proxy allows you to achieve a much lower rate of stale shares while reducing your bandwidth usage. The Python source is available here, and a binary for Windows here. You start the proxy on one of your machines as follows:

mining_proxy -nm -pa scrypt -o litecoinpool.org -p 3333

Then you connect your miners to that machine on port 8332 with the usual pool worker username and password.

I could use some help getting this to work on my mac. I'm getting the "dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libidn.11.dylib Referenced from: /usr/bin/minerd Reason: image not found"error. I read and someone was saying something about macports. I downloaded it but I have no idea what to do with it at this point. Can someone help me?

Install Xcode from the app store, go to preferences and find the tab where you can install commandline tools. Then download and install the latest macports package.

Is this for linux users or is this something I should or need to use or try on win7? CFLAGS = -g -O3

Those are compile-time flags.

Q: Is there any command-line option I can play with to make cpuminer mine faster?A: No. (But you can lower the number of threads to make it go slower.)

I'm sorry but that made me laugh. Watching a movie and playing games make it go slower too. I found turning the computer off gives the best results. Although the performance suffers but the savings in energy is wonderful.

To make it go faster you can increase the priority of minerd.exe in the taskmanager utility under processes. It's a bit more performance but not a lot.

Q: Is there any command-line option I can play with to make cpuminer mine faster?A: No. (But you can lower the number of threads to make it go slower.)

I'm sorry but that made me laugh. Watching a movie and playing games make it go slower too. I found turning the computer off gives the best results. Although the performance suffers but the savings in energy is wonderful.

That reminded me of the barometer question. Seriously, what you say is true, but is outside the scope of the question, which specifically addressed command-line options.

Q: Is there any command-line option I can play with to make cpuminer mine faster?A: No. (But you can lower the number of threads to make it go slower.)

I'm sorry but that made me laugh. Watching a movie and playing games make it go slower too. I found turning the computer off gives the best results. Although the performance suffers but the savings in energy is wonderful.

That reminded me of the barometer question. Seriously, what you say is true, but is outside the scope of the question, which specifically addressed command-line options.